pack  100 notes, usually with consecutive serial numbers, as
obtained from a bank. A 10-pack "package" constitutes a brick (hey, I
really did not make this up, honest!).

page  As an album page. One side of an album sheet.

paper currency (-ies)  Non-interest bearing, legal tender,
notes (papermonies), issued by an established national government or its banks, generally
for the entire country, state or nation, circulating as a substitute for metallic money.
(Note that occupation, invasion, guerrilla, military, local, emergency, etc, issues do not
qualify.)

paper money (-ies)  Anything made of paper that functions as money,
and has a specific value inscribed on it. (Note that this includes cheques, bearer
bonds, etc, but not baseball cards whose values depend on the market.) Sure, we'll be
magnanimous and allow the inclusion of silk, leather, seal skin, and certain other
flexible materials. Synonym: note(s).

papermoney, papermonies  A combined word, established by Mike
Tiitus thru continued use since 1969. Why? Well, stamps and coins are one
word things. So? Well, word counts add up for mail order dealers creating classified ads.
Before Mike came along, paper money dealers ads cost significantly more than those
of stamp or coin dealers. Synonyms: note, notes.

papiergeld  Papermoney, in German.

partisan note(s)  Notes issued by a military group of
irregular troops engaged in guerrilla warfare, often behind enemy lines. Examples include
Croatian and Yugoslavian notes issued during the German occupation in World War II.

patriotic issue(s)  Notes, stamps or coins without negotiable
value, usually issued by a patriotic group or a government-in-exile. Usually spurious
rather than overprinted on target government's issues. A special case of propaganda
issues, qv.

payment, medium of  See: Medium of payment.

PBC  Paper Billionaires Club. {PBC, Box 8, Forest City IA
50436}

Pcda  Professional Currency Dealers Association. (Not PCDA!)

perf  Street slang for a perforated stamp. A stamp without
perforations is an imperforated stamp or simply an imperf.

perforated  Most postage stamps are perforated, ie, the
sheets they come in have been drilled or punched with series of small lined holes, for
ease of separation from each other. Paper documents, including papermonies, are sometimes
cancelled by perforated words or designs. Specimen notes are sometimes perforated with the
word SPECIMEN, or its equivalent, in lieu of printing.

phantom bank  A non-existent bank whose name appears on a
spurious Canadian bank note. These were produced to take advan-tage of the trust Americans
had for Canadian bank issues.

philately, philatelics  The collection and study of postage
stamps and other postal materials.

Pick catalog  A comprehensive worldwide reference catalog of papermonies
by Albert Pick of München, Germany. Colloquial and shorthand for the Standard Catalog
of World Paper Money (SCWPM), published by Krause Publications, Iola, Wisconsin, USA.

Pick number  Pick catalog number.

Pilgrims Receipts  Regular papermonies overprinted in various
Islamic countries for use by Muslims while visiting Mecca.

pin holes  Actually, staple holes. Several Asian countries
(eg, India, Pakistan, Burma) use(d) staples instead of paper bands to prepare uncirculated
bundles-of-100 of very small size notes, such as the 1 Rupee notes. A pricelist dealer can
surmount this problem by still describing them as UNC, albeit with the caveat, USUAL PIN
HOLES. Also, 19th Century bankers sometimes "sewed" packs of used notes
together, creating at least one pinhole, in a questionable effort to prevent delivery
persons from retaining a few "samples".

planchet  A flat piece of metal waiting to be struck into a
coin.

planchettes  Circumfenetors. Also, a uniquely syngraphic term
for small silk disks (circa 1mm diam) of various colors embedded into paper as a an
anti-counterfeit security device.

plate  One of many printing plates, created from the original
die.

plate number  Small numerals and or letters permanently
engraved into a printing plate to identify notes printed by that plate. See also: number.

playing card money  See: card money.

plebiscite  An expression of people's will by direct ballot
on a poli-tical issue. Also, a geographical area subject to such a vote in the near
future. For example, an area between two countries may be claimed by both countries.
Rather than going to war over it, the two countries agree to allow the locals to decide
which country, if either, to merge with. Certain plebescites have issued notes.

PMO  Postal Money Order, an acronym.

political note(s)  Spurious non-negotiable notes created for
political purposes, usually to satirize political figures or institutions.

POR  Price [will be given] On Request, a pricelist
abbreviation for instances when prices fluctuate violently or are unknown to seller at the
time of pricelist preparation.

portrait  An image of a person's head or head and shoulders,
usually within a border, that appears on a note or stamp. Portrait vignettes are
borderless, with the engraved background design fading off at the edges.

postage currency  Nickname for the first issue of US
Franctional Currency, derived from the fact that the wordings and designs resembled the
then current stamps and their values. Moreover, the earliest issues were also perforated.
See also: stamp money.

postal money order(s)  PMOs qualify as papermonies, though
not as paper currencies, that is, they are usually not legal tender, require an
endorsement, etc.

POW  Prisoner Of War, an abbreviation, as in POW notes, qv.

price  Price is what the seller asks. Cost is what the
buyer pays.

printing  The process of CREATING MANY OUT OF ONE, as Al
Gore, in a nationally televised speech, defined E PLURIBUS UNUM. As expected, The Media,
who wouldn't stop jammering on and on and on about Dan Quayle's POTATOE, said absolutely
nothing.

prisoner of war scrip (or notes)  Cards, tickets or notes,
issued under The Geneva Convention, for use by POWs in POW camps.

private notes (issues)  Unofficial issues. Issues by any
business or institution not chartered by a government to issue money.

promissory note(s)  Negotiable fiscal paper promising to pay
on demand, sometimes after a fixed period of time, a specific amount of money to the
person named or to the bearer. All bank notes are promissory notes, but not visa-versa.

proof  Printer's proofs can be generated anytime during the
plate design process to see how it is coming along, how the colors look, to test various
security devices etc. Occasionally, such proofs escape into the collectors market; such
items are generally incomplete in some way, and often on the wrong paper. Highly evolved
proofs qualify as essays (qv) which can be submitted to potential customers for
approval.

PROOV  Equivalent to SPECIMEN, in Estonian.

propaganda issue(s)  Almost anything designed, printed, and
"issued" for propaganda purposes. Specifically, wartime counterfeits or blatant
facsimiles of enemy notes imprinted with a propaganda message, and air-dropped
behind enemy lines. The psychology being that the finder would be more apt to pick it up
read it if it looked like money. Both money-like and simple psywar leaflets have
been used extensively in all wars since World War One. Also, genuine enemy notes thus
overprinted (or altered, qv), provided they could not be turned into something of value.

provisional issues  Notes or stamps issued, as an emergency
measure, shortly after a government (or currency) changeover, by the new government (or
issuer), sometimes by overprinting the previous government's materials, while waiting for
the new stuff to be designed and printed. Not to be confused with the notes or stamps
issued during a provisional government (which may or may not continue to use existing
materials).

quarterfoil  Aka quatrefoil. A flower with four
petals; a leaf with four leaflets; etc. In syngraphics, an often used watermark design,
notably on German notes of the post World War I era. (Look, it is not easy to find
Q-entries for a papermoney dictionary.)